The Heartland Property Tours Exposure Engine sends your listing and interactive 360 virtual tour to more than 15 websites so your listing can get the MAXIMUM exposure possible. And if you include with your purchase the Submission to Realtor.com your tour will be pushed to nearly 100 sites in all!!!!

With our Exposure Engine your listings will get more views because your listing is on more websites and the Exposure Engine creates back links to your listings and website. What that means is that if any potential buyer would search by agent name or listing address the properties run through our Exposure Engine will return in the search engine results page. Everybody likes a little google juice with their virtual tours!

But that’s not all. Included in the New 2010 Exposure Engine is a new Smart Phone Tour and E-Flyer!! Are you putting all of your listings on YouTube? Well don’t worry because we are doing that for you. Our Smart Phone Tour allows agents to carry with them at all times their virtual tours on their cell phones for instant viewing. You never know when you may come across a potential buyer.

The E-Flyer is an HTML email-ready flyer that agents can easily send out to potential buyers.

Look us up online today. Heartland Property Tours is ready to take your listings to the next level.

e-toursonline Interactive Media is pleased to announce our newest client, SunHost, Corp. After looking at several Bradenton virtual tour providers, SunHost decided to use e-toursonline for their virtual tour solution because of the marketing abilities incorporated into each customized virtual tour.

“Ultimately, we owe many thanks to the technology of Real Tour Vision. I really have no sales pitch and so basically I explained how our virtual tours are search engine optimized for indexing, “My Tour Gallery” hosts all tours and is also optimized for the serps and finally how the tour stats will help monitor weekly virtual tour tour traffic.” said Lance Ziegler of e-toursonline.com.

We explain to everyone that we talk with that our virtual tours are social media and social network ready. With the click of the mouse you can instantly tweet or facebook your virtual tours. It is simple to use, easy to implement into any website or blog. The virtual tours are also very easy to use both online and offline.

I always like to leave a new customer by telling them that our virtual tours are are by far the most inexpensive and useful property marketing tool that drive business back to their company and website.

SunHost has already requested that e-toursonline begin fulfillment of the contract by creating 360 virtual tours for Madeira Norte Resort, Surf Song Resort, Beach Place Condominiums and Crimson on the Gulf, all situated on the sandy white beaches of Madeira Beach, Florida. Historical John’s Pass, the world famous Bubba Gump Shrimp, CO., dozens of site seeing expeditions, a casino cruise ship, and shopping are all located directly across the road and are within walking distance from these resorts.

Each resort has undergone many renovations and individual unit upgrades to greatly improved the quality of each visitors stay, giving them a feel of luxury right on the Gulf of Mexico. The virtual tours have now captured this beauty in 360 degrees and definitely gives resort shoppers the true perspective of being on location.

I attended the Webinar with the Twitter Queens, and I think that might stick. 5 Min. after the meeting I went and signed up my Twitter account and starting posting. I didn’t know how to use Facebook, MySpace or Twitter. Now I know how to use Twitter very well. I can see how you might be able to get a client or 2 from Twitter.

A question that I would have is why would people from Twitter follow me? Is it just because I post news my 360 virtual tours of the area or virtual tour industry news? I also have seen the Twitter Queens posting news throughout all of the day. I could post but I really don’t have as much time as them to keep on posting the way they do. However the webinar did teach me something new that I really needed to learn and have been putting off.

Overall I am really happy that I attended the Twitter Queens Webinar. I will keep on posting news on Twitter and posting my Parma Virtual Tours and see if this will help my business grow.

What do buyers look for, or look out for when purchasing Traverse City real estate and the five county surrounding areas? This article is designed to help sellers evaluate the important aspects of selling a home and what potential buyers want.

The way you live in your house is not the way to sell your house. So, what makes a house a home for sale on the market, and one that soon has a “SOLD” sign out on the front lawn? And what aspects are important to look at because potential buyers will ask the question, “How much work are we going to need to do prior to moving in and beyond?” The appearance and cleanliness of the home are significant.

Always have your home in show ready condition. It is critical to be prepared so you have the least amount of stress when you get the call that an agent wants to show your home. Sellers need to know that today, buyers have high expectations. An updated home in excellent condition is critical to getting your home sold in the least amount of time and for top dollar. Buyers love updated kitchen and baths, new lighting fixtures and it is amazing how new paint and carpet can transform a home.

Here are some things a buyer will look for when dealing with the purchase of a home. The buyer will consider the following:

• Exactly what personal property is included in the sale? Lighting fixtures, drapes or blinds, refrigerators, and washers and dryers.

• Is the neighborhood quiet, friendly? Are the homes well kept?

• Are there any development plans that will affect the property?

• The inspection report – are there any substantial problems with the house?

• Real estate taxes – what are the current property taxes, and what impact will your purchase have on the taxes?

Another issue that raises concern regarding buyer appeal is that sellers often mistakenly think that viewing empty properties will give the buyers an accurate sense of the space available. On the contrary, sometimes it is more difficult to judge the size of a room without furniture and other objects as reference points. An empty room even allows buyers to focus on negative details instead of getting a sense of the overall space and the flow of each room to the next. Buyers need to ask themselves the question, “Can I see myself in this home?” Therefore, staging really helps buyers envision themselves in the space.

The idea of “staging” a home to make it look alluring to buyers has become popular during the last decade, as manifested by the proliferation of numerous home staging companies offering advice about how to make the house more attractive to buyers. Check out next’s month’s article about “Staging a Home.”

Finally, once your home is in perfect “SHOW” condition be sure to have your home professionally photographed with an interactive 360 virtual tour. Virtual tours that can be converted into video and distributed across many outlets will put more eyes on your home than ever before when it is in it’s best light.

When selling your home Julia Lilley and Linda Zajac will work with you to put your home is the best showing condition possible. Our goal is to create the Wow factor so that buyers can envision themselves in the home and want to put your Traverse City home or property under contract.

The latest National Association of Realtors(NAR) report on home buyers and sellers shows the ever increasing role that the internet plays in searching for a home. The study included persons who purchased a home in the 12 months ending in June 2008 and here are the results NAR found: In the ‘just starting to look’ phase: 33% went to the internet first In the ‘seriously looking for a home’ phase: 87% began with the internet 32% of buyers ultimately found the home they purchased on the internet Overall, 99% of the buyers found the internet ‘somewhat useful’ in their search and 81% said it was ‘very useful’. As the internet has become increasingly more important, we continually strive to keep our Traverse City Real Estate website as technically up-to-date and user friendly as possible. We not only syndicate to nearly 50 different websites including Zillow, Trulia, Craigslist, Yahoo and Google, but we also use powerful property marketing tools such as interactive 360 Virtual Tours, single property websites and more which puts your listing on YouTube and social networking sites!Our sellers can be confident that they will have the ultimate in internet exposure and buyers who visit my site have access to a variety of helpful information, including access to all area MLS listings. Thank you for visiting and if we can be of any further assistance to you, please don’t hesitate to contact our brokerage anytime! Jason Kudary Real EstateC-21Northland.com – Traverse Real Estate